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A note on some thoughts around ‘data’. Inspired, in the first instance, by this discussion on hacker news.
TODO Summarise some key points from the Hickey/Kay discussion
- The starting point of the discussion is the questioning of the assumption that ‘data is a good idea’ from Kay
- Hickey challenges the assumption that data has any innate value at all. Any ‘value’ is added through interpretation.
- So, the core issue here is around the value (moral or otherwise) of ‘data’, and whether it has any at all.
Questions
In relation to this line by Hickey: